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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025

Special Issue: Population inequality matters

Guest editors: Miguel Sánchez-Romero, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Iñaki Permanyer, Michaela Potančoková, Vanessa di Lego

The 2025 volume of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research focuses on the role of population inequality in demographic research, particularly, on the interplay between population diversity and social inequality. Besides classical markers of heterogeneity in individual behavior, such as gender, age, education, family status, migration background, urban-rural residence and socio-economic status, other sources of inequality are covered in the volume. They include marginalized populations, such as homeless people, generational and spatial factors as well as emerging trends, such as digitalization. Understanding population inequality is key for modeling population developments and projecting them into the future. Equally important is to understand how and why different types of inequality arise and evolve, and what policy challenges they impose for socio-economic development, welfare systems and social cohesion.
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025

Details

ISSN1728-4414
ISSN Online1728-5305
ISBN-13978-3-7001-9681-5
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-9682-2
Subject AreaSociology and Economics
Quality reviewrefereed - online
doi10.1553/populationyearbook2025

Introduction

Michaela Kreyenfeld ORCID - Vanessa Gabrielle di Lego ORCID - Inaki Permanyer ORCID - Michaela Potancoková ORCID - Miguel Sanchez Romero ORCID

Population inequality matters

page 1

doi: 10.1553/p-5eef-bmjp

Debate

Wolfgang Lutz ORCID

The growing gap in cognitive skills within and between countries

page 17

doi: 10.1553/p-5g8c-k457

K. S. James ORCID - Ravi Sadhu ORCID - David E. Bloom ORCID

Widowhood, gender and disadvantage in India: Current trends and future trajectories

page 27

doi: 10.1553/p-h8jj-e3c5

Alyson van Raalte ORCID - Yana Vierboom ORCID - Pekka Martikainen ORCID

Revisiting within-cohort compositional change to understand mortality inequalities

page 43

doi: 10.1553/p-7b6f-83c5

Alícia Adserà ORCID

Artificial intelligence and fertility: Gender and educational inequalities in family formation

page 58

doi: 10.1553/p-5fff-96k6

Jesús García-Gómez ORCID - Juan Galeano ORCID - Albert Esteve ORCID

Assessing national vs subnational population heterogeneities in a global context

page 69

doi: 10.1553/p-cp2h-ne2d

Leo van Wissen ORCID - Becky Arnold ORCID

Reducing urban–rural population inequalities: The divergent roles of internal and international migration

page 83

doi: 10.1553/p-c6ed-4d5m

Review Articles

Zack W. Almquist ORCID - Paul Hebert ORCID - Amy Hagopian ORCID

Does demography have a role in measuring homelessness? Insights and approaches in the United States

page 97

doi: 10.1553/p-5e53-9p3c

Research Articles

Hal Caswell ORCID - Silke F. van Daalen ORCID

Inequality, heterogeneity, and chance: Multiple factors and their interactions

page 129

doi: 10.1553/p-j2pg-fm66

Magdalena Muszyńska-Spielauer ORCID - Tim Riffe ORCID

Life tables under current risk composition based on observed, fixed characteristics

page 157

doi: 10.1553/p-4pz2-cebp

Maria Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar ORCID - Svenn-Erik Mamelund ORCID - Gerardo Chowell ORCID

Inclusion of Deprivation in Endemic-Epidemic Models

page 175

doi: 10.1553/p-4b4e-mkcd

Thomas Horvath ORCID - Martin Spielauer ORCID - Philipp Warum ORCID

Life course heterogeneity and the future labour force – A dynamic microsimulation analysis for Austria

page 207

doi: 10.1553/p-35zm-55f2

Carl Michael Baravelli ORCID - Tord Finne Vedøy ORCID - Rannveig K. Hart ORCID - Jonas Minet Kinge ORCID - Astri Syse ORCID

Inequalities in health outcomes by income and education: The case of Norway

page 231

doi: 10.1553/p-d6az-d2j6

Santosh Jatrana ORCID - Ken Richardson - Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti ORCID - Susan Hartono ORCID

The longer you stay, the bigger you get? Evidence from an Australian longitudinal study

page 255

doi: 10.1553/p-7gcp-6eab

Emmanuel Idohou ORCID - Philippe Bocquier ORCID - Michel Guillot ORCID

Excess under-five mortality of children born to immigrants: Longitudinal evidence from France

page 301

doi: 10.1553/p-fdgp-bgc3

Ronak Paul ORCID - Shreyantika Nandi ORCID - Rashmi Rashmi ORCID

Examining the heterogeneity in under-five mortality risk by household structure in Nepal 1970–2022

page 329

doi: 10.1553/p-d6a3-acn8

Steffen Peters ORCID - Kieron Barclay ORCID

Leadership skills and family formation among males. A study based on Swedish register data

page 373

doi: 10.1553/p-kbjc-5fmn

Data & Trends

James Raymer ORCID - James O’Donnell ORCID - Qing Guan ORCID

The contributions of past immigration to current age-sex structures of immigrant populations in Australia

page 403

doi: 10.1553/p-7h5h-9j4m

Leen Marynissen ORCID - Karel Neels ORCID - Jonas Wood ORCID

The association between education and entry into parenthood across origin groups and migrant generations in Belgium: A model-based synthetic life table approach

page 421

doi: 10.1553/p-7b6f-83c5

Leo Azzollini ORCID - Daniela Bellani ORCID - Giulia Rivellini ORCID

Attitudes towards immigrants in European contexts. Social origins or generational influence?

page 449

doi: 10.1553/p-eehm-k8gc

Dirk Konietzka ORCID - Yevgeniy Martynovych ORCID

Educational disparities in place of residence. The urban-rural divide in six European countries from a social stratification perspective

page 473

doi: 10.1553/p-9g9e-pf8p

Jonas Wood ORCID - Leen Marynissen ORCID - Jessica Nisén ORCID - Peter Fallesen ORCID - Karel Neels ORCID - Alessandra Trimarchi ORCID - Lars Dommermuth ORCID - Ruben van Gaalen ORCID - Martin Kolk ORCID - Pekka Martikainen ORCID

Regional differentiation in women’s educational gradients in fertility around the turn of the century: Urban-rural differences in northern and western Europe

page 489

doi: 10.1553/p-4cgn-nz7f

Thomas Arnhold ORCID - Viktoria Szenkurök ORCID - Daniela Weber ORCID

Mapping inequalities in the health of older adults around the world: Heterogeneities in cognitive and physical functioning

page 515

doi: 10.1553/p-mcm9-5b3b